Heart Safe Community Projects.
Annual Community Engagement Initiatives: As part of our ongoing commitment to public health, education, and international solidarity, Heart Safe Community Academy has proudly delivered a series of impactful and free community engagement programmes over the past year. These initiatives are embedded in our organisational ethos and continue annually as core components of our social value strategy.
Community Health resilience initiative
Building resilience into every part of our community
A four-strand programme for young people, local organisations, employers and the wider community - piloting in Cirencester from 2026, led by Heart Safe Community Academy
10
Youth Champions
(Pilot)
7
Organisations
Supported
14
Employer
Partners
9
Community
workshops
Why this, Why Now
Resilience is under strain - for young people, and for the community around them.
13.5%
of 16-24 year olds in the UK are not in education, employment of training - the highest failure since 2013
9%
of 16-24 year olds report feeling lonely often or always higher than any other age group
Local charities and community groups are increasingly stretched thin, with little spare capacity to build the resilient systems that let them weather a difficult year.
Heart Safe Community Academy already has the clinical education infrastructure and facilitator network to respond.
This Initiative turns that capability outward, into the community, on a not-for-profit basis.
Our approach
Four strands. One resilient community.
Resilience is built at every level at once — in young people, in the organisations that support them, in the employers who give them a future, and in the everyday fabric of community life. Each strand completes part of the ring.
Programme strands
Every strand, costed and targeted for Year 1.
Youth Community Resilience Champions
A six-module personal development programme for 15–18 year-olds: foundations, communication, practical resilience, volunteering, employability, and a youth-led graduation project.
Employer & Community Partnership
Practical, lasting partnerships between local employers, community organisations and young people — supporting social impact and workforce development on both sides.
Community Organisation Resilience
Building resilient systems, staff and processes into local charities and community groups, with hands-on consultancy, shared workshops and a reusable resilience toolkit.
Community Skills & Engagement
Free and low-cost workshops open to the whole community — practical tools for everyday resilience, mental health, loneliness, anxiety and wellbeing.
Get involved
Three ways to back the Initiative.
Whatever scale suits your organisation, there's a way to help us launch all four strands in 2026.
Fund a Strand
Back a single strand that matches your funding priorities — youth development, charity capacity-building, employer engagement, or public wellbeing.
From £13,377
Become an Employer Partner
Join Strand 3 as one of our pilot employer partners — offering work experience, mentoring, or a route into employment.
14 partner places, Year 1
Volunteer or Give In-Kind
Venue space, facilitation time, professional expertise or volunteering hours all reduce the programme's cash cost.
Every contribution counts